How to install Atom editor in Ubuntu

Atom is an editor for the 21st century. Created by Github with love, Atom is modular, advanced, hackable editor for programmers. We all know Editor play’s very important to keep developer like you productive.

Thanks to webupd8.org for providing respistory.

Visit the official site here to download the Atom editor for Mac, Windows and Linux. However, you can install Atom using the command line too.

To download and install Atom in Ubuntu you have to type following command one by one in your terminal.

Step 1 : Add repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom

Press Enter if it ask your permission.

Step 2 : Update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

It will take some time. Be patient.

Step 3 : Install Atom.

sudo apt-get install atom

It will download and install the Atom editor on your Ubuntu 14.04. Here is screen shot of Atom running in Ubuntu.

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[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install atom
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
atom : Depends: gconf2
Depends: gconf-service
Depends: libgnome-keyring0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnotify4 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxtst6 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libnss3 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: gvfs-bin
Depends: xdg-utils but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).

Hello Sir, I am using an Ubuntu 16.04.1 on a digital ocean droplet and have installed atom but it will not open
Do you know if it requires some kind of a GUI system? I am only working from the command line.
Any help is appreciated…

The PPA mentioned in this article is not updated. A better option would be to add `snap install atom –classic` install instructions. Snaps can be installed on Ubuntu (going back to 14.04), Debian, openSUSE, Fedora, Mint, Arch Linux, Solus, etc. The Atom snap is always current and updates automatically when new versions are released 🙂